E.H. Whinfield
Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922) published an initial series of 253 quatrains in 1882, as 'The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám'. For this version he used the editions by J.B. Nicolas (1867), the Lucknov-edition (1878), the 'Bodleian manuscript' (nr. 140), and a couple of smaller collections of quatrains.
One year later 500 quatrains were published in a bilingual edition: a Persian text with the English translation. This time eight collections of quatrains were used.
A selection of 267 quatrains were selected from this edition, for a new edition, in 1893, with the English text only.
Whinfield's translations were also published in a number of popular editions, for example in 1909 and 1920. The bilingual edition of 1883 was re-issued in facsimile editions in 1980 (Octagon Press) and 2001 (Routledge) and in combined editions, together with the versions of FitzGerald, McCarthy, Nicolas and others.
Whinfield was one of the first translators who listed which of his quatrains were corresponding to the source quatrains that he used.
- The quatrains of Omar Khayyám. Translated into English verse by E.H. Whinfield. London: Trübner & Co, 1882 (Trübner's Oriental Series) PDF (Archive.org)
- The quatrains of Omar Khayyám. The Persian text with an Eglish verse translation by E.H. Whinfield. London: Trübner & Co, 1883 (Trübner's Oriental Series) PDF (Archive.org)
- The quatrains of Omar Khayyám. Translated into English verse by E.H. Whinfield. Second edition, revised. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1893 (Trübner's Oriental Series) PDF (Archive.org)
- The quatrains of Omar Khayyám. [Translated by] E.H. Whinfield. 2nd. edition. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901 (Trübner's Oriental Series)
- Selections from "The quatrains of Omar Khayyam. Persian text; English verse translation / by E.H. Whinfield. Second edition, 1901". [London]: Kegan Paul & Co. [1902]
- Quatrains of Omar Khayyám. Translated by E.H. Whinfield. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1902
- Quatrains of Omar Khayyám. Translated by E.H. Whinfield. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1920
